{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-falkland-islands-order-1997/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2584",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) (Falkland Islands) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-oil-pollution-falkland-islands-order-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n(a) a reference to a fine of a level on the standard scale is a reference to a fine of that level on the standard scale having effect under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Ordinance 1989;\n(b) “statutory maximum” means such sum as is for the time being the prescribed sum for the purposes of section 32 of the Magistrate’s Courts Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "No.17 of 1989."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2584/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:45:54.309565+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}